How much moderate intensity Cardiovascular exercise each day for maximum fat loss?!


Question: How much moderate intensity Cardiovascular exercise each day for maximum fat loss.?
Okay some general info:
I'm 18, 6' 1", 235-240lbs, fairly active, and moderately muscular. I've got a 3 week break coming up, and since I have school off with no work, I've been planning on doing a bunch of cardiovascular exercise this week. I was planning on about 90 minutes each day of moderate (6.0-6.6mph average) exercise on an elliptical machine, but I've been reading online and bodybuilding websites suggest a low amount of exercise to preserve muscle, and others suggest hours a day. I'm in pretty good health lung- and heart-wise, but I haven't done much aerobic exercise since I left swimming in high school, as I've been really busy at school, so I've put on quite a few pounds.

also, what would a good goal for weight loss be for me.? According to BMI I am obese and should lose 30-60 pounds, but I think that for me 30 should probably be the upper range.

Thanks for any help.

ChrisHealth Question & Answer


Answers:
Unless your an extreme competitive bodybuilder or Olympic champion weightlifter, cardiovascular exercise is never bad. The 90 minutes a day of moderate sounds like a good plan. If your not lifting weights at the moment too and you only have 90 minutes a day maybe you'd want to try lifting for 45 minutes and running for 45 minutes. After all, muscle burns more calories then fat.

It isn't suggested to lose more then 2 pounds a week for quite a few different reasons, which all kinda come down to "it's not good for your body" if your pretty muscular it's ok to be overweight on the bmi scale, obese is even ok if your really THAT muscular, but i'd probably guess that your goal should be about 20-30 pounds.Health Question & Answer

45-60 minutes of cardio at a minimum of 5 times per week. I don't recommend to do more than that for two reasons:

1) After 45 to 60 minutes, your body is no longer burning fat. It's just getting exhausted.

2) Your body needs at least a day per week to rest

Good luck and remember to follow the proper diet!Health Question & Answer

First of all Chris

you say that you are rather muscular. BMI Measure muscle as fat so your body mass index is only a measure of tissue and fat in your body so being rather muscular it is very easy for you to show up obese. I would recomend before this that you have someone test you for your body fat index with a body fat analyzer of a skin fold calibur test If you have an athletic director at your school then he probably will test you if you want for free. I have a very muscular gym teacher who is considered obese on the bmi scale but only with 7 percent body fat with the body fat index scale. You will be suprised when you take this test unlike the BMI scale which measure fat and tissue to organs the BFI scale measures the ratio of fat to lean muscle tissue. so it is a more accurate representation of your fat content. Try it! i hope your do!Health Question & Answer



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